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Rating
4/5
Summary
Hotjar provides Product Experience Insights about your website that show how users behave and what they feel strongly about, so product teams can deliver real value to them.
Optimize your website with certainty, not assumption. Watch real user journeys, with automatic Friction Scores that detects where to focus first.
A website UX tool. See how your visitors actually use your website. It features visitor recordings, live chat, heat map suite, analytics, polls, & more.
Privacy-first, lightweight, accurate web analytics for free. Web Analytics that allows you to view and track essential stats on the usage of your website.
Pros
  • Comes with great heatmaps
  • Includes session recordings
  • Good polling function
  • Hotjar features exit surveys
  • Intuitive dashboards
  • Great filtering
  • Possibility to tag elements
  • Helpfull support
  • Automatic form tracking
  • User feedback surveys
  • Easy to use
  • Great tagging feature
  • Attentive support team
  • Starts free when client of Cloudflare
  • Very easy to setup
  • Server log additional metrics
  • Difficult to block for Adblockers
Cons
  • Hotjar is not available for mobile
  • Steep pricing for large organisations
  • Hard to exclude URLs from reports
  • Lack of insight for Iframe recordings
  • Funnels could be improved
  • You run into credit limit quite fast
  • New version can be glitchy
  • Slight learning curve for beginners
  • Limited features
  • Might track high amounts of bot traffic
  • Limited metrics
  • Cannot exclude own visits

Pricing information

Starting Price
BasicFree
Plus$49+ p/m
BusinessOn req.
ScaleOn req.
FreeFree
Starter€39 p/m
Growth€129 p/m
Business€259 p/m
Pro€499 p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
14 days
7 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
10
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
10
User Seats
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
N/A
Account Security
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication

Data Processing

Data Center Locations
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
Software Hosting
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
Data Ownership
Hotjar
Mouseflow
Lucky Orange
Cloudflare Analytics
Data Freshness
30 minutes
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
12 months
12 months
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
6 months
Data Sampling
Adaptive sampling of 1-10% on all stats
Data Import
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
through integrations
Data Export
Export recording meta data
via CSV or to third-party tools by ID push
via CVS or JSON files or an API
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Mouseflow uses first-party cookies
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies
Cloudflare analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Via web hook
Email Reports
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Hourly, daily, or weekly emails
Cloudflare does not feature email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Simple visitor trend graphs
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Filter by device type, OS, browser & screen resolution
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Discover why users drop off
Simple funnel report, watch recordings from converters
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
Create custom filters for recordings
Segment users to filter heatmaps & recordings
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Simple referrer graph
Simple referrer dimensions but no UTM tags
Ecommerce Reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Unlimited
Click, movement, scroll, attention, live & geo heatmaps
Session Recordings
Record all interaction with your site
Elaborate filtering & livestream options
A/B Testing
No A/B testing tool only integrations
User Feedback
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page
Custom triggered text, multiple choice & NPS ratings

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Automatic form tracking
Custom Events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Custom tagging of recordings
Cloudflare does not feature event tracking
Annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations

Support

Support description
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
Mouseflow provides support in four languages and through phone, email, and an extensive knowledge base
Lucky Orange offers support by means of email, a live chat, and a ticketing system. Besides that, they have an extensive knowledge base and they offer an onboarding service.
Cloudflare offers support for their main product via email, a ticketing system, an elaborate knowledge base and an online community
Support Options
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community

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